(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The safe disposal rate of medical waste in Urumqi reaches 100%, and sewage treatment in key places is normal
China News Service, Urumqi, August 12 (Reporter Sun Tingwen and Zhao Yamin) Ge Guangfeng, director of the Urumqi Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, said at the 26th press conference on epidemic prevention and control held in Xinjiang on the 12th that at present, Urumqi medical waste is harmless. The safe disposal rate reaches 100%. The sewage treatment facilities of designated medical institutions, fever clinics, medical fabric washing institutions, sewage treatment plants and other key places in the city are all operating normally and disinfection is in place.
During the epidemic, the disposal of medical waste and wastewater is an important guarantee to prevent the second spread of the virus. Ge Guangfeng said: "Since the outbreak, we have combined health, urban management, water affairs and other departments to take multiple measures to increase the supervision of medical waste and medical waste water to ensure that the city's medical waste is harmlessly treated and medical waste water meets standards.
Ge Guangfeng said that all departments strictly implement the main responsibilities, strengthen coordination, and form a joint force for the disposal of medical waste and medical wastewater. Strictly implement the management system for the transfer of medical waste, and implement the source-sorted collection of medical waste. At the same time, increase the environmental supervision of medical waste disposal units to ensure that medical waste is cleaned daily and treated in a harmless manner. Strengthen the monitoring of sewage collection, pollution control facilities, and pollutant discharge in medical institutions. Medical institutions check the residual chlorine content in medical sewage twice a day, and dynamically adjust the amount of disinfectant to ensure that the disinfection is in place according to the measurement results.
He said that through telephone dispatch, video surveillance, on-site inspections, etc., the entire process of supervision of key medical institutions, medical waste disposal institutions, centralized isolation points, medical fabric washing institutions, and sewage treatment plants are implemented. Comprehensively monitor the collection and temporary storage of medical waste in more than 30 key medical institutions, implement 24-hour monitoring of key enterprises, analyze changes in the amount of medical waste generated and disposed of, and dynamically adjust disposal measures based on changes in the amount of medical waste generated To ensure the harmless disposal of medical waste. "Increase the supervision of sewage discharge from centralized medical observation points, and implement facilities operation and disinfection measures for those with independent sewage treatment facilities; if not, implement disinfection of the source sink and toilet to block the transmission of the virus through the sewage. "
It is reported that Urumqi has also included 17 sewage treatment plants, 4 medical fabric professional washing institutions and 7 hospital laundry rooms into the scope of sewage supervision. In accordance with the requirements of the Pollutant Discharge Standard for Urban Sewage Treatment Plants, disinfectants or ozone will be added. , UV disinfection and other measures, real-time attention to changes in indicators such as influent residual chlorine and effluent fecal coliforms, to ensure that medical wastewater discharges up to standards.